High Agency Parenting

Mental Model: Protect Your Time Aggressively

Time Management is Personal Security. Time is one of your most valuable resources, and protecting it from distractions is essential to achieving your goals. Be intentional with how you spend your time, and defend it from interruptions that prevent you from focusing on what truly matters. Guarding your time aggressively allows you to work smarter, not harder.

Events Near You

For boy-8 in Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• Bay Area KidFest
  Date: May 24-26, 2025
  Location: Concord
  Description: A family fun festival featuring live entertainment, rides, and activities for children.
• YMCA Family Camp: Roughout
  Date: May 23-26, 2025
  Location: YMCA Camp Campbell, Boulder Creek
  Description: A family camping experience with activities like hiking, archery, and campfires.
• San Mateo County Fair
  Date: May 30June 8, 2025
  Location: San Mateo
  Description: An annual fair with carnival rides, live music, agricultural exhibits, and family-friendly entertainment.

Editorial: Is Your Child TOO Nice for Their Own Good?

Is Your Child Too Nice for Their Own Good? Its great to have a kind and cooperative childbut what if they struggle to say No, avoid conflict, or always put others first? Overly agreeable kids may grow into adults who: Take on too much responsibility trying to keep everyone else happy Struggle to stand up for themselves in work and relationships Put others first so often that they forget their own needs How Parents Can Create a Learning Moment: Next time your child hesitates to share their opinion, give them a gentle push. At a restaurant, ask them to order for themselves. If they always let their sibling pick the movie, encourage them to choose and explain why. When they say, Its fine, challenge themBut what do you really want? Small moments like these teach them that their voice matters. Being nice is great. But kids also need to know when to stand their ground.

StudyThem.com: Warren Buffett, at age 11

In 1941, when Warren was 11 years old, he bought his first stockthree shares of Cities Service. He had been interested in business and investment from a very early age, inspired by a book he borrowed from the library at the age of seven: One Thousand Ways to Make $1000. Before turning 11, he tried several businesses such as selling chewing gum and Coca-Cola, delivering magazines, working in grocery stores, delivering newspapers, selling golf balls and stamps, and detailing cars, among others.

Midwit Meme: Parenting is Hard

Parenting is Hard Mid-wit Meme

Low: Just feed them and keep them alive. How hard can it be?

Mid: You need to read 50 parenting books, follow attachment theory, enforce Montessori principles, track their every developmental milestone, and never let them have screen time!

High: Parenting is challenging because it forces you to grow while raising someone else.